louis khn in interior design

1. LOUIS KAHN'S
ARCHITECTURAL WORKS
PRESENTED BY: CHANDRA SAGAR S.M &
YUVAKUMAR.P

2. • Introduction.
• Education.
• Awards and honors.
• Designs.
• Timeline of works.

3. • Louis Isadore Kahn (born Itze-Leib Schmuilowsky; March 5 [O.S.February
20] 1901 – March 17, 1974) was an Estonian -born American architect based
in Philadelphia.
• After working in various capacities for several firms in Philadelphia, he founded
his own atelier in 1935. While continuing his private practice, he served as a
design critic and professor of architecture at Yale School of Architecture from
1947 to 1957. From 1957 until his death, he was a professor of architecture at the
School of Design at the University of Pennsylvania .
About Louis Khan:.

4. Kahn excelled in art from a young age, repeatedly winning the annual award for
the best watercolor by a Philadelphia high school student. He was an
unenthusiastic and undistinguished student at Philadelphia Central High
School until he took a course in architecture in his senior year, which convinced him
to become an architect. He turned down an offer to go to the Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts to study art under a full scholarship, instead working
at a variety of jobs to pay his own tuition for a degree in architecture at
the University of Pennsylvania School of Fine Arts. There, he studied under Paul
Philippe Cret in a version of the Beaux-Arts tradition, one that discouraged
excessive ornamentation.
Education:

5. Kahn was elected a Fellow in the American Institute of Architects (AIA)
in 1953. He was made a member of the National Institute of Arts and
Letters in 1964. He was awarded the Frank P. Brown Medal in 1964.
In 1965 he was elected into the National Academy of Design as an
Associate Academician. He was made a member of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1968 and awarded the AIA Gold
Medal, the highest award given by the AIA, in 1971, and the Royal
Gold Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA), in
1972. In 1971, he received the of AchievementGolden Plate Award of
the American Academy .
Awards and honors:

6. • Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut(1951–1953).
• Richards Medical Research Laboratories, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1957–1965).
• The Salk Institute, La Jolla, California (1959–1965).
• First Unitarian Church, Rochester, New York (1959–1969).
• Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College and Hospital, Dhaka, East
Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
And many more………
Designs:

7. 1935 – Jersey Homesteads Cooperative Development, Hightstown, New Jersey.
1940 – Jesse Oser House, 628 Stetson Road, Elkins Park, Pennsylvania.
1944 – Carver Court, Foundry Street, Coatsville, Pennsylvania.
1947 – Phillip Q. Roche House, 2101 Harts Lane, Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
1950 - Morton and Lenore Weiss House, 2935 Whitehall Rd, East Norriton, Pennsylvania..
1951 – Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut.
1952 – City Tower Project, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (unbuilt).
1954 – Jewish Community Center (including Trenton Bath House), 999 Lower Ferry Road, Ewing, New
Jersey.
1956 – Wharton Esherick Studio, 1520 Horseshoe Trail, Malvern, Pennsylvania (designed with Wharton
Esherick).
Time Lines Of Work:

8. • 1957 – Richards Medical Research Laboratories, University of Pennsylvania, 3700
Hamilton Walk, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
• 1957 – Fred E. and Elaine Cox Clever House, 417 Sherry Way, Cherry Hill, New
Jersey.
• 1959 – Margaret Esherick House, 204 Sunrise Lane, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania.
• 1958 – Tribune Review Publishing Company Building, 622 Cabin Hill Drive,
Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
• 1959 – Salk Institute for Biological Studies, 10 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla,
California.
• 1959 – First Unitarian Church, 220 South Winton Road, Rochester, New York.
Time Lines Of Work:

9. • 1960 – Erdman Hall Dormitories, Bryn Mawr College, Morris Avenue, Bryn Mawr,
Pennsylvania.
• 1960 – Norman Fisher House, 197 East Mill Road, Hatboro, Pennsylvania.
• 1961 – Point Counterpoint, a converted barge performance venue used by
the American Wind Symphony Orchestra.
• 1961 - Philadelphia's Mikveh Israel, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (unbuilt).
• 1961 – Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, India.
• 1962 – Jatiyo Sangshad Bhaban, the National Assembly Building of Bangladesh,
Dhaka, Bangladesh.
• 1963 – President's Estate, Islamabad, Pakistan (unbuilt).
Time Lines Of Work:

10. Time Lines Of Work:
• 1965 – Phillips Exeter Academy Library, Front Street, Exeter, New Hampshire
• 1966 – Kimbell Art Museum, 3333 Camp Bowie Boulevard, Fort Worth, Texas
• 1966 – Olivetti-Underwood Factory, Valley Road, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
• 1966 - Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester, Chappaqua, New York
• 1968 – Hurva Synagogue, Jerusalem, Israel (unbuilt)
• 1969 – Yale Center for British Art, Yale University, 1080 Chapel Street, New Haven, Connecticut
• 1971 – Steven Korman House, Sheaff Lane, Fort Washington, Pennsylvania
• 1973 – Arts United Center (Formerly known as the Fine Arts Foundation Civic Center), Fort Wayne,
Indiana.
• 1974 – Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, Roosevelt Island, New York City, completed 2012.
• 1976 – Point Counterpoint II, an improved concert venue for the American Wind Symphony
Orchestra, is debuted posthumously
• 1979 – Flora Lamson Hewlett Library of the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California.

11. Khan:
Jatiya Sangsad Bhaban or National
Parliament House.
Is the house of the Parliament of Bangladesh,
located at Sher-e-Bangla Nagar in the
Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka. Designed while
the country was still part of Pakistan by
architect Louis Kahn, the complex is one of
the largest legislative complexes in the world,
covering 200 acres (810,000 m2).
The building was featured prominently in the
2003 film My Architect, detailing the career
and familial legacy of its architect, Louis
Kahn. Robert McCarter, author of Louis I.
Kahn, described the National Parliament of
Bangladesh as one of the twentieth century's
most significant buildings.

12. Kimbell Art Museum In Fort Worth, Texas,
hosts an art collection as well as traveling art
exhibitions, educational programs and an
extensive research library. Its initial artwork
came from the private collection of Kay and
Velma Kimbell, who also provided funds for a
new building to house it.
The building was designed by architect Louis I.
Kahn and is widely recognized as one of the
most significant works of architecture of recent
times. It is especially noted for the wash of
silvery natural light across its vaulted gallery
ceilings.

13. Louis Khan Legacy:
• Louis Kahn's work infused the International style with a fastidious, highly personal
taste. Isamu Noguchi called him "a philosopher among architects.“
• He was concerned with creating strong formal distinctions between served spaces
and servant spaces. What he meant by servant spaces was not spaces for servants, but
rather spaces that serve other spaces, such as stairwells, corridors, restrooms, or any
other back-of-house function such as storage space or mechanical rooms. His palette of
materials tended toward heavily textured brick and bare concrete, the textures often
reinforced by juxtaposition to highly refined surfaces such as travertine marble. Kahn
argued that brick can be more than the basic building material.

14. The editorial describes Kahn's plan as:
*If you think of Brick, you say to Brick, 'What do you want, Brick?' And Brick says to
you, 'I like an Arch.' And if you say to Brick, 'Look, arches are expensive, and I can use a
concrete lintel over you. What do you think of that, Brick?' Brick says, 'I like an Arch.'
And it's important, you see, that you honor the material that you use. ... You can only do it
if you honor the brick and glorify the brick instead of shortchanging it.
* Simple and elegant. Drawing inspiration from Roosevelt's defense of the Four
Freedoms—of speech and religion, and from want and fear—he designed an open 'room
and a garden' at the bottom of the island. Trees on either side form a 'V' defining a green
space, and leading to a two-walled stone room at the water's edge that frames the United
Nations and the rest of the skyline.

15. External links:
http://www.philadelphiabuildings.org/pab/app/ar_display.cfm
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http://www.arthistory.upenn.edu/themakingofaroom/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Kahn#Education